Arrival Time: Students should be at Statesboro High School on the bus outside Mr. Collins Lab at 6:00 AM

Forms and dues for our Technology Day Ralley at the Georgia National Fair must be turned into Mr. Collins by Monday, September 07, 2017 if you are planning on attending. Forms can be found in the link high-lighted above.

I look forward to having a fun day at the largest fair in the state of Georgia and one of the largest in the USA.

National TSA Week Throwback Thursday: Post a favorite TSA photo of you and your chapter from your early years in TSA. Ideas include: a photo of your first TSA conference or working on your first competition.

National TSA Week -Forever TSA Friday: Post a collage of all chapter photos relating to TSA

- Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Guest Speaker / Presenter for First Period

For the architectural design competition, the guidelines say to include the mentorship verification form in the pdf files. However, the mentorship verification form require students' names to be included, and the guidelines specifically say NOT to have students' names anywhere on the project. That presents a contradiction and a potential for a judge to affect an entry based on the guideline against using a kid's or school's name in the entry.

I contacted the National Event Manager who wrote the contest rules and his response was to use student's initials in place of their name on that form.

S.P.

Prepared Presentation Competition:

As we did last year, I will not wait until the first day of the state conference to give the topic of the Prepared Presentation Event to the registered students. The topic will be emailed to all registered HS Advisors the week following the close of Conference Registration.

Children's Stories
Theme: Electronically Enhanced Book – Participants are to design an electronically enhanced book in which the electronics enrich the storybook experience.

Debating Technological Issues
Topic: Information Security in Modern Life

Subtopic 1: Resolved: Genetic Discovery Companies (such as 23 and me) should be able to sell or make available your genetic profile to third parties.

Subtopic 2: Resolved: Companies should be able to sell your usage data (history, bookmarks, application downloads, etc) of their equipment to third parties.

Subtopic 3: Resolved: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) should be used on student badges to take attendance and track students' movements around school campuses.

Digital Video Production
Theme: TSA Competitive Event Infomercial

Dragster Design
There is no special theme for 2018 Dragster Design

Engineering Design
Theme: Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery

Fashion Design and Technology
Theme: 1980's Fashion - Trends and Styles
Each team should design and create from scratch three (3) garments that represent one (1) of the 1980's era fashion trends.

Photographic Technology
Theme: The Battle Between Nature and Technology - Who Wins?

When preparing for upcoming TSA competitions, be sure to check the TSA website for the most current competition updates and clarifications. Please check this link regularly so that your chapter members will have the most up-to-date guidelines for competitions in which they may be competing.

These are the competitions that are currently affected:

Updates and Clarifications are posted on an ongoing basis, so please be sure to check the update page on a regular basis. Any information posted via this link (as well as the general rules for each competition found in TOTAL TSA) will apply to entries submitted for competitive events at the 2017 national TSA conference.